Show fi THE 4 The Thriving School At When Uncle Sam's troops were ordered away from Fort Camer- l which is located about two J miles east of twenty large stone buildings remained unten- l These deserted and barracks and hospital soon fell into partial Boys i played robber upon the weed- grown camp by and ghosts the nervous stalked through 's the empty rooms by On successive May days beautiful girls and bashful gallants paraded and danced upon the old drill This including many acres of adjacent came into the possession of P. Farnsworth and John R. These j at the instigation of President Benjamin of the Brigham Young presented the old fort to the Mormon which organization agreed to maintain a church school there to be called the Beaver Branch of the B. T. The grounds were the buildings were and a school was started just eleven years ago under the direction of Principal Ernest During the first years the students that came were and three or four teachers the The growth of the under the guidance of Principals Anderson and Hickman has been steady and Now the faculty numbers eighteen men and and over regular besides about have been enrolled during the present school while many cants for admission had to be turned away for lack of This hindrance to the school's will soon A new the largest church-school building in is being The plan is to have it finished by September 15 of this Last spring the school severed its connection with the B. and under a new Murdock continued its struggle Nearly always the first words that burst from the lips' of a visitor to the an DOMESTIC SCIENCE 1 ideal location for a The exclamation true not for a business college or a state but for the kind of school that is being developed the place is The Academy aims to teach fundamental principles of The comparative solitude iu which the students find themselves and the closeness to nature tend to cultivate meditation- and The fresh mountain breezes sweeping down the at whose mouth the fort the nearby bearing lofty pines toward heaven the enclosing the creek-like river rushing through dense first only a stone's throw from the campus' these things from an that greatly aids in the perception of what is essential in life in cultivation of a love for truth the desire for clean thinking I right aids in the acq J a lasting love for Nature M Nature's IE The school aims to the industrial arts doaX and domestic hundred forty acres of good ing land lie either side oiX The shops and hm are and welt equipped m many country schools education which tends to the country boy and girl Mr fled with their life the best brains' of the commA often seek the emy aims to prepare the tA boy and girl for the wort um of country life felt that the farm is the A-of our coming great the stay of our national happiness h e a 1 1 h 1 and progressive can better be had there the nerve-wrecking city- Jyl to one m Academy's chief pare the student for life bar in the also fit responsibilities in life mv offers three four-year leading to Normal School a Industrial course m and an comprising the kindo the name extension courses are A various towns of Besides this institute t f t I i in the various Southern j |